What is MeisterPlayer?

[herbertmilhomme]

So many words and text, and none really explain what this really is. Yeah, i get that it's a media player, because of the name, and visiting main page, that it can be used to play media on a web-browser. But my question is there is no documentation to be found on the source.

It says:

• Meisterplayer/meisterplayer/readme.md
  Meister on it's own can't play video's it requires at least a player plugin and a media plugin.
• Meisterplayer/player-html5player/readme.md
  This is only a player plugin so it cannot play media on it's own, it needs a media plugin to play.
• meisterplayer/media-basemedia/readme.md
  This plugin allows basic media types to be played.

But really, what's the difference? What does it all mean? There's no defined terms, and plug-in is an umbrella terminology used differently by everyone who uses it. Even if i just downloaded everything without trying to break it down, just to use it -- i cant. It says you need different parts, then break up the parts needed, but don't explain how you need them, and how it's supposed to look when they're all put together. What is the final result supposed to look like? What do i put where, and how does one call the other? I just want a little information on how to use this, as the readme and the website doesn't give a complete "here, just download this or paste that and off you go..."

It's unfortunate that building websites to play audio and video content, has to be this big uphill battle. Every major corporation seems to be doing just fine, as if there were some secret escalator that the rest of us don't know about. I look at their source code and everything is all minified or encrypted. So figuring out what tools they use is also another mission on its own.

Can someone re-write the readme.md to actually answer what the tool does, and throw all the commands into a documentation wiki? Honestly... i get that it's nice to have the "how to use" on the front-page, but it really doesn't explain what the product is. So potentially i could be overlooking a really great gem, and discarding it, just because it was coated with clutter

[ivo-toby]

Thanks for your feedback!
We'll review the documentation.

[herbertmilhomme]

Also, out of curiosity, how does this tool differ from the those tagged? I found this project cause i was looking for Conviva SDK -- which for some reason has no direct download [on their site]... (not going to register an account, and submit personal information, such as my living address to use a forum, that may or may not allow me to play videos thru an html browser). Why did you tag other products, but did not offer a comparison to how using your tool benefits their usage. I cant tell if this is a replacement or an improvement. How does it help us to use your tool, and in what way? As mentioned before in first post. As a web developer, a request that comes often is to offer video/audio support. Without having to rely on youtube or some extreme CDN provider, it would be nice to be able to offer video support on a website (doesn't need to be on a CDN if bandwidth usage isnt extreme). Is this an achievement that i can find by using your tool? If so, a really simple getting started would do wonders for me. Consider me your everyday grandma (or mother) using the internet to accomplish a single goal, and teach it to me through those lenses. Don't need something over complicated for a process that's supposed to be simple, right?

[ivo-toby]

Conviva is not a html5-videoplayer. Conviva is an analytics-tool which we have integrated in Meisterplayer (by means of a Meisterplayer-Conviva-plugin). Conviva provides insight in what your visitors are playing, what quality is of playback, loading time, video start failures, engagement etcetera. It's used by several broadcasting companies which also use Meisterplayer.
The Meisterplayer-Conviva-plugin is one of our commercial plugins and it's not publicly available on GitHub.
So; we tagged it as being a feature also available in Meisterplayer (for paying customers) and not as being an competing product.